CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The winter of 2013 battered Clarksville-Montgomery County, leaving schools empty for a total of 10 inclement weather days. Administrators are crossing their fingers they won’t see a repeat this winter.

The Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board met Tuesday evening and discussed the inclement weather plan for the 2014-15 school year.

Last year, CMCSS created an inclement weather plan that called for three inclement weather days to be built into the school calendar. This year, they have expanded that number to five inclement weather days, according to Elise Shelton, CMCSS chief communication officer.

According to the plan, the first five days missed by students will not be made up and will come from stockpiled days.

CMCSS students currently spend an extra 30 minutes a day in school for instruction time. The extra 30 minutes creates 13 stockpiled school days.

Five of those days are used for staff development. The remaining days are used in case of inclement weather, Shelton said.

If five inclement weather days are used, students do not have to make those up. If they have to make up more than five, one of the following methods will be used:

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If more than five days are missed, the sixth day and days following will be made up on Jan. 2 and Jan. 5. That means students will return from Christmas break two days early. Feb. 16, which is President’s Day, can also be used as a make-up day.

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If those days are unavailable, plans have been made to convert the early release day on April 10, 2015, into a full day, with 30 minutes added to eight additional school days to equal one school day.

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If more days will need to be made up, 30 minutes will be added to 13 school days to equal one full school day. The school days will not exceed TCAP week.

If more than eight days need to be made up, the school system can contact the state and ask to be exempt from making the days up.

The board voted unanimously in a 6-0 vote to approve the inclement weather plan.

To view the 2014-15 school year calendar go to the calendars tab on www.cmcss.net.